The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws : The War on Terror and the Classifications of the »Dangerous Other«

This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the »war on terror«, namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the re-moralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-national...

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Other Authors: Eckert, Julia M. (Editor)
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Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2008
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